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Diversity and the Movies: It Must Be More Than Skin Deep

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Last night, Hollywood crowned its best and brightest. The 83rd Annual Academy Awards spotlighted all that we’ve come to love about films and regrettably all that continues to disappoint us about major filmmaking.

Poster for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, held February 27, 2011.

One best picture nominee, The Kids Are Alright, portrays a happy, [...]

What Pantone Color Are You Wearing?

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One of the first questions Oscar attendees are always asked by reporters as they stroll the red carpet is “who are you wearing?” As we do every year, my friends and I will gather this Sunday to watch E!’s Live from the Red Carpet at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards and find out who [...]

The King’s Blog

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King George VI May 1939 via Wikimedia Commons

One of the movies receiving accolades, if not awards, at the Oscars on Sunday is “The King’s Speech.” No spoiler alert is needed to tell you that the movie is about how King George VI, who stammers, prepares for a pivotal speech. The king can’t just [...]

Advocating Social Change One Person At A Time

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For months I waited for the screening of “Enemies of the People,” to arrive at the West End Cinema. Initially I was excited to watch the engrossing documentary about a Cambodian man’s search for answers to why leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime brutally murdered nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population.  But when I [...]

Set your DVR – It’s Super Grover 2.0 Week!

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While this may not be big news to you – for a family with two kids in diapers – it’s HUGE!  Beginning today, Sesame Street will feature a daily segment with Super Grover, whose powers involve the “ability to observe, investigate, question and report phenomenon to help kids solve problems.”

Add “and build mutually beneficial [...]